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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1941)
Zke Ckewawa American Published every third Friday during the school year by the Chemawa Indian School. Address all communications to the CHEMAWA AMERICAN, Chemawa, Oregon. Published in accordance with the Interior Department appropriation Act, 1940, approved May 10, 1939. Subscription 50 cents a year. PAUL T. JACKSON Superintendent ROBAIR THOMAS ROSALIND E. CRUISE Printer and Manager Journalism Instructor Editorial Responsibility! How much that word means to every student in a school such as ours! Are you a good student? Do you know and carry out your responsibilities as you should? What are your responsibilities? It would be difficult to try to list all the duties we, as students of Chemawa, have to attend to but one of the important ones is our CONDUCT! Whether we are in a class, on the campus, in the dormitory, or in any kind of an assembly, we should always show by our actions that we know the right kind from the wrong kind and. of course, always show the right kind as we know we should. Besides our conduct, we also are re sponsible for getting our lessons done and turned in on time; and we must get to our line-ups when we should; and we must realize our many other responsibilities and always do them to the best of our ability. We have shown considerable improvement since the first of the school year but we can still improve a lot more! What do you say, students, let’s show the members of our faculty what we stu dents can do when we really get down to “brass tacks.” Today more than ever patriotism stands above everything else. The United States is now fac ing a world crisis. The American people and the United States government can not evade this dev astating monster which attempts to annihilate us. The freedom loving people of the United States can not tolerate this “fifth column” subversive or any other form of foreign elements now busily engaged in destructive propaganda. These for eign agents do everything in their power to dis rupt industry, and cripple the national defense program. Every American individual must come to the aid of his country so as to win the economic struggle we are now going through with countries now trying to rule the entire world. We can not visualize a Nazi victory over all the freedom-lov ing people of the world. The democracies must not be put in control of the hands of the dictators. A victory for these opponents of freedom would bring us back to the dark days of barbarism. —F loyd T yler Football, basketball, baseball and other kinds of sports have their physical and mental require ments of the participant. These are all immater ial, however, as far as the actual value of the sport is concerned. Participation in any athletic game requires alert men and women. A person has to think “ahead,” try and out guess his opponent and do the unex pected. All these manuevers lead up to the coor dination of the mind and body. Let’s take a game of football for an example. After the starting whistle the coach is no longer by your side to help you and correct your mistakes. Situations arise that have to be dealt with and handled by yourself. This is the sort of practice that renders training in doing the right thing at the right time. Your mind commands and your body ex cutes to the best of its ability. After you have graduated from high school you will realize that athletics have helped you in more ways than the glory it may have bathed you in. From the heartbreaking losses, you will learn to steel yourself against the hardships and the unpleasantness you may encounter in life. From the joyous wins, you will take more con fidence in yourself. All in all, play the game for what it is, and you will gain the experience of playing the game of life for what it is.—L loyd C olfax School Band The Chemawa Band this year is made up of twelve members. They practice every day and have improved a great deal since last year. Al though five of the twelve are on the football team the remaining members furnish the music that adds pep to the football team Alumnus Writes In a recent letter from Frank Dumont, *33, he stated that he recently passed a civil service examination for general mechanic and was ap pointed to a position at Bend, Oregon. While attending school here, Fank was a student of Mr. Berry.
